Birthdate: 12/16/83
Position: founder, bassist
Gear: Behringer BX3000T Ultrabass 300W head, Behringer Ultrabass BA115 600W Cab, Shitty Dean 4 string bass, GHS strings, and his fingers......
Listens to: Slipknot!! But also listens to Black metal and Death metal(loves his death metal), along with just your average american heavy metal bands(Lamb of God, Chimaira, Darkest Hour, etc...)
Where would you be if you weren't in Monolith?: Dead, or at home drunk, picking my nose
Date joined: 2001, he started it.
Brief Bio:
Spawned from the 3rd layer of Hell known as McConnelsville, Ohio is Shep. He basically grew up in the back woods country hick town, where ignorance and inbreeding reign supreme. He lives in a town where if you wear a black shirt and have long hair, and didn't play football, that meant you do drugs and worship the devil. He spent his whole life in the corrupt and depleted Morgan County school system, where if you didn't play sports or didn't have money, you were dogshit. Shep began playing music around the age of 10 when he learned how to play the saxophone and drums, but alas he never did anything with it. At about the age of 16 with the urging of a friend at the time, he began to play bass, because he thought his hands were too big to play guitar. His first rig was a 10W Fender amp and a shitty Squier 4 string bass. Shep is completely self taught, not knowing how to read music, or having any concept of time signatures, he just picked up a bass and started figuring it out. Shep first got into metal about the age of 10 when he bought a box of casettes at a neighbors yard sale. Inside that box was Slayer's "Reign in Blood", Metallica's "Kill Em All", Pantera's "Far Beyond Driven", and Morbid Angel's "Domination" just to name a few. So at the ripe old age of 10 a metalhead was born. Shep lives, eats, breaths music, namely metal, and without it would be lost.